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Secret Told. 



RELIGIOUS SCIENCE 



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i HEALING 



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ONE LESSON 



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ROBERT CASEY. 



I HE SECR ET TOliD. 



RELIGIOUS SCIENCE 



AND 



HEALING 



IN 



ONE LESSON 



Robert Casey, ^^^ 

AUTHOR OF 

GOD AND GOOD ARE ONE." 



denver, colo.: 

The Reed-Wheelon Pub. Co. 

1891. 



NOTE.— Words capitalized in the text are of special sig- 
nificance. 



FORETHOUGHT, 



All genuine Science is Idealism, which has its correlates in con- 
crete verities ; otherwise it is speculation and fancy. 

Life is two-phased ; it has the side of objective fact, and the 
mental imagery of fact, or what fact is supposed to be. Verifiable 
Science recognizes and never loses sight of these two sides. 

We desire that the following lesson shall furnish its own com- 
mentary, and be so plain that it will carry its meaning on its face. 
We are not concerned about whether it ''agrees' with this or that 
book or teaching. We have not sought to ''reconcile" or be recon- 
ciled ; but, turning away from all desire in that respect, have under- 
taken to present the question of Scientific Mental Healing on its own 
merits, and through its sole, demonstrable basis. One question alone 
is admissible respecting the contents of the lesson : 

Are they verifiably true f 

We hope the reader who honors it with his attention will strive 
to determine this by a sincere study of the lesson itself, resting as- 
sured that if it be demonstrable Truth, it must necessarily coincide 
with its like everywhere, although it may seem to antagonize much 
popularly received as verity. 

Demonstrable Science is its own authority. Fixed in this con- 
clusion, the author submits his work to such canon. 

ROBERT CASEY. 



THE SECRET OF HEAlilHG, 



Op 



The Science of Occult Cut^es |V[ade Easy. 



eA §l70ff, Simple explanation of fl7e poW^r and Mefl7od t)s^d ir\ ps^cl7ic, 
M^tapl^^sical and Mental pealing for Mind and ISody. 



"I tried to look upon this universal cloud" (the nebula out of which the Solar 
System was formed), "containing within itself the prediction of all that has since occurred; I 
tried to imagine it as the seat of those forces whose action was to issue in solar and stellar 
systems, and all that they involve. Did that formless fog contain potentially the sadness 
with which I regarded the Matterhorn? Did the thought which now ran back to it simply 
return to its primeval home? If so, any definition" (of matter) "which omits life and thought 
must be inadequate, if not untrue," — Professor Tyndall; "Musings on the Matterhorn." 

"The great harmony of the Universe issues from the mutual adjustment of its forces; 
the harmony of our Microcosm issues from the adjustment of its movements to the move- 
ments of the External. It is by Identification of ourselves — Body and Mind — with Nature 
that we truly live; all non-identification is error, disease and death." — G.H.Lewes; "Problems 
of Life and Mind." 

"Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free." — Jesus: reported in 
John 8:32. 



Reader, if you would heal and be healed, the secret is yours. 
Like hidden honey, it has been distilled from many tiowers of 
thought, and patiently carried into the words before you. 

Dismiss from your Mind all mist, superstition and belief that 
the eternal truth is occult and hard to understand. Truth is the 



8 THE SECRET TOLD. 

natural food of your being. It is all about you, and, better still, it is 
within you; is the very breath you breathe, and the life that flowers 
out in your consciousness and thinking. 

Science is the Divine Messenger which now more distinctly 
than ever proclaims 'Teace on Earth ; Good will toward Men." It 
is the mission of Science to dispel illusion, strip the Truth of its con- 
cealing fogs and state it in plain, simple words. 

Do not run or hurry. Read and think. This is a condensed 
message and it contains the central core of many verities. You will 
find a number of words printed in small capitals. When you do, 
refer to the glossary at the end of the lesson and fix their meanings 
clearly in your Mind. The}^ are the definitions of Verified Realities, 
for which the capitalized words stand. Be ver}^ patient and thought- 
ful. The good you will realize depends entirely upon the spirit with 
which you pursue the instructions. 

T^H BASIS. 

There is but One mixd in the Universe, and evolution is its 
nature and law. Knowing and unknowing, it is active everywhere. 
All things and events are parts of its process, and thought cannot 
conceive a mote's-length of space where it is not. 

You, Reader, and every other human being are individual for 
the reason that your total existence is constituted of this One Mind. 
You are a person because you have a conscious, or knowing, feeling 
center of this Only Mind. 

Illustrations. — There is a universal Electricity. It is one, and 



THE SECRET TOLD. 9 

not divisible in the sense of being separable in any respect or portion 
from itself in dynamo or battery. These instruments simply focal- 
ize in themselves the One Electric Energy. It becomes manifest 
through arc lights, incandescent burners and motors; but Electricity 
is Universal and Indivisible. 

In this illustration the One, Electric Element, represents the 
One, Universal Mind. The lights, batteries, dynamos and motors 
parallel the Conscious Centers in organized Beings. Each Conscious 
Center has for its individual Basis and Range the Total Mind. 

How do we know that? By induction from clear and oft- 
repeated experiments. Mind-reading, hypnotism and telepathy, in 
late years studied with scientific care have revealed it to us. We 
shall refer to their demonstrations farther on. 

The One Everywhere-present Verity is manifest as two polari- 
ties, variously called ''matter and mind," ''Substance and spirit," 
''Body and Soul," "phenomenon and noumenon." 

Certain conditions of the Universal Reality are also known by 
different names: "Matter and force," "Life and Death," "Health 
and Disease." It is likewise said to be "static and dyna.ahc," "poten- 
tial and Active," "Conscious and Unconscious." 

The Sum Total of this Omnipresent, "Static and D3-namic"' 
Reality men have thought of abstractly and called by many names : 
"God," "Nature," "Brahm," "Osiris," "Jehovah," "Manitou," etc. 

In this lesson "God" is The All — in which expression or form- 
ula we really get a scientific meaning for the words of Paul, that, as 
persons, "in 'God' we live and move and have our beino." Thus. 



lO THESECRETTOLD. 

Each Person, as a Conscious Expression of "The All," is Divinity 
manifesting Itself in Thought, Feeling, Purpose and Will. 

When each rises to the sublimest, truest recognition of what he 
is, of his real identity, he can discern the majesty of that ancient 
utterance: ''I Am — and beside me there is none else." 

TESTI^O^V. 

Have you ever noticed how often this marvelous conception 
has been regnant in Man? Jesus is reported as once having said: 
*'At that day ye shall know that I Am in the Father, and you in me, 
and I in you." — John 14:20. Again, he plainly declared to Philip, 
who desired to see this vague ''Father:" ''Have I been so long time 
with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath 
seen me hath seen the Father." — John 14:9. 

It is said that the people tried to stone him because, "being a 
man, he made himself equal with God." They simply did not have 
the exalted conception of existence Jesus had. 

Paul echoes this glorious thought: 

"It is 'God' that worketh in you, both to will and to do of his 
own good pleasure." — Philippians 2:13. 

"There are diversities of operations, but it is the same 'God' 
which worketh all-in-all^ — I Corinthians 12:6. (Read the chapter.) 

Through all history this grand idea of the Unity and Identity of 
That Which "^>" has blossomed out in Human Thought. The devout 
Spinoza, the martyred Bruno, and the pious Schelling sounded the 
concert-pitch of Being ; and in later days, Emerson, Abbott and many 



THESECRETTOLD. II 

Others have soared to this august Transfiguration of Thought. 
''God" is ''The All ;" is the present, working, Universal Reality. 
Is in every way potential and active as the Cosmic Verity. Upon 
this unshakable foundation Science must be built, and the teachings 
of this lesson are based. Mr. Lewes' words, quoted in our first pages, 
are the keynote of genuine Power. 



THE PROBLEM OF HEALING. 

Man is a Conscious, Living, Thinking Being ; the highest- 
known evolution of the "All." His existence is manifest in two polar 
conditions : {a) A Physical Organism ; (d) a Conscious Center-of- 
Mind. These two states are simply opposite poles of the Unit Sub- 
stance of which the person is formed. 

The PHYSICAL POLE must be studied first ; the Conscious Center 
is evolved through the Physical, and unfolds into activity with it. 
(See Paul's conception of this verifiable truth in I Corinthians 15:44- 
45-47.) 

The PHENOiMENA of Man's Consciousness, Feeling, Thought and 
Will arise through the verity of a Substantial Organism, and must 
ever do so, since they are the dynamic pole of that reality. 

The Human Body is composed of the One \'aried Element of 
the All. Its formation begins with the uniting of atoms (which can- 
not be seen even with the most powerful microscope^ to make cells 
that build upon and unite to themselves other atoms and cells 



12 THESECRETTOLD. 

in a manner determined by tlie impulse known as "heredity." Finally 
the aggregate takes shape as a human embryo, foetus, babe and adult. 

Do you, Reader, here ask what causes these first atoms and 
their succeeding accretions to unite? This only is now known : It is 
in the very nature and inherent force of the atoms themselves to behave 
so. What makes the magnet draw a needle with one end and drive 
it away with the other? Its magnetism? What is that? The only 
verifiable answer is that the attraction and repulsion are the distinct 
inherencies of the magnet. It shows these activities under the condi- 
tions, and they are what make it a magnet. *'It is 'God' that work- 
eth." These powers are ''God's" actions at the time, under the 
conditions. And these ways of "God's" actions — called "modes of 
motion" in the All — are invariable throughout the universe from 
atoms to planets and stars. This polarity {do not fail to learn pre- 
cisely what the word means) is the dual form in which the All mani- 
fests itself, everywhere and always. Behind this fact no one can go. 
It Is; and trying "to go behind it" leaves no shadow of verifiable 
ground for thought. Upon whatever existence we look, whether 
active or static, we behold "God," the All, in some sort of manifesta- 
tion. Let us fix this fact firmly in Mind. 

The human body is composed of many (at least sixteen are 
recognized) of the known physical elements, or "differentiated 
forms" of the All. These are builded into many organs, supported 
by a skeleton and united by a Nervous System whose fibers and fila- 
ments spread and ramify through every tissue, and culminate in that 
marvel called the Brain. When these myriad parts are in their nor- 



T H E S E C R E T T O L D . I3 

mal, or ''healthy," state, the Man Is an engine of force, strong In 
vitality, thought and consciousness. When the harmonious relation 
of his bodily parts Is broken or disturbed, he is said to be sick or dis- 
eased ; and such abnormal states, if continued, end in death. Then 
the wondrous organism is decomposed, and Its original elements are 
redistributed through the great Whole from which they were gath- 
ered by vital attraction. 

''The Problem of Health and Healing" Is, to pi'esei've the harmo- 
nious, vital relationship of the organism, and reinstate it whe7i it is dis- 
tttrbed by interfering agencies. This is the object of all healing art. 
In any Problem of Health or Healing, three factors are involved : 
{a) the Physical Body; (b) the Conscious Mind; (V) the One, Varied 
Element in which we live and upon which the Bod}^ depends. 

In order to understand this problem, we must explain the 
sequence of growth in the Organism, and what is meant by "The 
Convertibility of Forces." 

The body begins with two cells which unite by virtue of their 
inherent attractions. These gather others which take their places by 
the same affinity. The power which unites them is called vitality : 
this Is the primal force of all organism. Its first manifestation is that 
Polarity which causes the primordial cells to combine. Next It shows 
Itself in the fact that a cell, once formed, will shrink and expand ; this 
movement is called "contractility." Then this \^ital Energy mani- 
fests itself in "sensation" or feeling; then it evolves Into distinct local 
motion when the embryo "quickens," or manifests Its first signs of 
separate life. 



14 THE SECRET TOLD. 

All this time its constituent elements are focused in it, being 
drawn from the maternal blood, which, by placental connection, circu- 
lates through the awakening organism. At birth it is a miniature 
human being, and begins its personal existence. Instead of being 
vitalized by its mother's blood, it now begins to eat and breathe for 
itself. Next the Vital energy rises into consciousness ; at first dim, 
faint and feeble ; but with growth this becomes clearer, and the babe 
begins to look intently at objects, especially a light. Then the Force 
evolves into emotions of pain or pleasure, which manifest themselves 
in cries or smiles. After a time the Energy appears in Ideation, 
which is Mental representation of ''sense-impressions." Further 
along ideas, or mental pictures, begin to connect themselves, and 
thought is formed. At first thought is simple ; a mere grouping of 
two or three mental objects by sight. But as the being evolves, these 
pictures gathered through the senses remain potential as ''memories," 
and can be brought again before the mental eye, or knowing center. 
Then the child begins its abstract thinking, and this unfolds until we 
have such marvels as a Newton, Shakespeare or Herbert Spencer. 

Now read the two following paragraphs until you fully under- 
stand them in all their words and meanings : 

In this entire unfoldment we have traced the progress of One — 
Divine Verity. Every step is a growth, or evolution out of the one 
preceding it. The Vital Energy has taken root, grown up, flowered 
out and borne its fruit. Each step is verifiably present in each human 
being now, and continually. There are the Original Vital Energy, con- 
tractility, sensation, locomotion, consciousness, emotion and thought. 



THE SECRET TOLD. I5 

Conversion is simply the turning or passing of one thing into 
another. ''The Convertibility of Forces" is the capacity one form of 
Force has of becoming another ; and in the steps we have just traced 
the process is plainly illustrated. Original Vitality is turned into con- 
tractility, that into sensation, that to motion, consciousness, ideation 
and thought. Let us illustrate it in other ways : The blacksmith 
eats dinner ; what he eats is converted into tissue-cells, that become 
generating batteries of the Vital Energy, which, liberated again, is 
converted into the motion of his arm ; that into blows with his ham- 
mer upon iron, and each blow is transmuted into heat. Trace it any- 
where ; it is ever a chain, each succeeding link of which is forged out 
of the preceding one. What is this never-failing unfoldment? The 
activity of ''God," the All, 

The following is a definition of "health" framed by a finely dis- 
criminating physician : 

"Health is that condition of the Organism in which Active 
Vital Energy is normal in supply and distribution, so that each part 
duly performs its special function, and acts co-ordinately with all 
other parts." 

It has been well defined as "harmony of the functions." 

Disease is that negative condition of the organism in which 
Active Vital Energy is deficient in supply, or distribution, to one or 
more parts, so that their functions are imperfectly performed, and 
thereby the harmony of the whole Is disturbed. 

Briefly, it Is disorder in the body. 

The aim of the Healer or Health-preserver Is: [a] To Induce 



l6 THESECRETTOLD. 

and maintain Active Vital Energy when it is generally deficient ; {b) 
to converge and direct, if he can, this force when once generated, to 
any part or organ whose special supply is defective. 

How can this be done? 

Two methods only claim our attention : 

I.— THE ORDINARY, OR DRUG, METHOD. 

When an organ of the body is sluggish, the ''doctor" gives a 
drug, which is expected to act mechanically or chemically, either 
directly or through the nervous centers controlling the organ, so as to 
excite the deficient vitality, and restore the proper function or pecu- 
liar ''life" of that organ ; and so, the harmony of the organism. 

But long experience has taught the doubtfulness of medicinal 
effects ; and recently one of the ablest physicians I know said to me 
with a fierce oath : "The eternal trouble with 'medicine' is that it 
always deals with 'unknown quantities,' and so is forever uncertain." 
Another old and thoughtful practitioner remarked to me with a pro- 
found sigh : "As to merely medicinal or drug therauptics, it must be 
confessed that no one can predict with certainty what response any 
given organism will make, at any given time, to any given drug, in 
any given dose." 

I think it safe to say that the only verified science respecting 
drugs relates to the action of "antidotes." This is the neutralization, 
or making harmless, of poison by administering something that com- 
bines with it to form a new and innocent compound in the stomach or 
tissue. And so far as medication follows this verified science, nothing 
is to be urged against it. But in competition with a system so con- 



THE SECRET TOLD. I7 

fessedly dubious as that of the administration of drugs in general, 
we present : 

II. — THE PSYCHIC iMETHOD. 

The Psychic Healer recognizes the fact and nature of the 
physical organism. He admits and abides by the Laws of mechanical 
and chemical action within the organism, as elsewhere ; but adds a 
recognition of the more important Law of the ''Convertibility of 
Forces" in the All. Upon these foundation principles he works. How? 

GENERAL STATEMENT. 

In the Organism, and The All from which it draws its physical 
supply, there is an invariant quantity of active or potential Vital Energy . 
If a certain proportion of Vital Energy in the Organism flows into 
thought, one can increase the quantity of that Force convertible into 
other forms, by checking ideation — learning to cease thinking. This 
is the primal step, and the way it can be done is set forth in 
Exercise IL 

Again ; by intense thinking, Vital Energy in the higher brain, 
converted into thought of definite significance and purpose, can be 
discharged upon other organs of the operator's body, there to appear 
in the form of Energy required for the restoration and support of that 
organ's functions. Through the Laws of the propagation of Force. 
the operator can also transfer this energy produced or converted in 
himself, to enfeebled organs of another's body ; and this may be done 
directly or through another's induced thought. 

DIRECTING VITAL ENERGY TO ABNOR>L\L PARTS. 

In general, when there is sufihcient Force accumulated it needs 



l8 THESECRETTOLD. 

no Special direction, but acts automatically. Yet this rule has well- 
defined exceptions, and such demand not only the arousing of dor- 
mant \^italit3^ but the exercise of intense, directive decree of Will. 

Dr. William Hammond says that ''expectant attention" has 
been known to produce tumors in parts upon which it was fixed. If 
this be true, who can rationall}^ den}^ the converse cure of the tumor 
or other difficulty b}^ a like agenc^'^? ''It is a poor rule that will not 
work both ways." The author of this lesson has several times dem- 
onstrated the virtue of the process in relieving various difficulties in 
his own person. 

But as these fundamental principles are best illustrated in the 
practical Exercises we shall set forth, let us pause and try to conceive 
a general Idea of the whole process of Inductive Power. 

In modern Electricity^ we hear much about "The Alternating 
Current." It is the most efficient form of the Energy known, and is 
used in our arc-light systems. "The Alternating Current" is a most 
powerful, reversible wave-series of electricity, potent because of its 
infinitel}^ rapid and intensified character. It is generated in brief 
as follows : 

Imagine a circular, heavy iron frame as large as the front 
wheel of a common wagon. Inside the frame a series of heavy bar- 
magnets are arranged with alternating positive and negative poles 
pointing toward the center, like the spokes of a wheel. These mag- 
nets are wrapped with miles of insulated wire, which is connected 
with the lines leading to the numberless lights. In the center, like 
the hub of a wheel, nearly touching but separate from the spoke-like 



THE SEC RET TOLD. IQ 

magnets, is fixed an iron roller which is called an ''armature." This 
' armature is set in journals so that it can revolve between the converg- 
ing poles of the magnets. Remember that the magnets which con- 
verge on this armature are arranged in alternate fashion, first a 
positive and then a negative pole, through the whole dozen or twenty 
used. The armature is composed of alternate bars of iron and brass, 
as if you should construct a round log ten inches in diameter with 
alternating strips of wood and clay. Thus, when the armature re- 
volves, an iron and a brass strip are presented successively to the pole 
of each magnet. 

When the engine is started, the speed of the armature 
reaches twelve or fifteen hundred revolutions per minute, and you 
can imagine how rapidly the successive strips of brass and iron are 
presented to each negative and positive pole in the concentric series. 
Well, every time an iron part passes before a magnetic pole, it induces 
in the wires encircling the magnet an electric flash ; and passing be- 
fore a positive pole it sends the current in one direction, while passing 
before the negative, it reverses the current and fl_ashes it in just the 
opposite direction. If there are ten magnets and the armature of ten 
iron strips revolves fifteen hundred times per minute, calculate how 
many times the current is alternateci, or reversed, through the entire 
curcuit of lights ! The very momentum of an}' flash is something 
tremendous ; it is like the rush of water in pipes, and the shock when 
it is suddenly stopped. It is powerful b}'^ reason of its checked and 
reversed movement. 

Well, Reader, this general principle of "alternation" is the in- 



20 THESECRETTOLD. 

herent nature of all force manifestations. Energy is impulsive, or as 
Mr. Herbert Spencer puts it, ''rhythmical." It rises and falls like the 
tides ; it acts and reacts. There is a period of intense activity suc- 
ceeded by comparative rest. This is the Divine Law of all Motion, 
and is particularly noticeable in bodily and mental dynamics. We 
call it ''action and reaction ;" and perceiving the fact, one of our 
pious hymn-writers said, measuredly : 

"I'm sometimes up, and sometimes down ; 
And yet. I know I'm heaven-v/ard bound."" 

The principle of rhythm or alternation of physical force is well 
illustrated in the facts that we wake and sleep ; inspire and respire ; 
that we are at one time highly exalted, and, in the reaction, swing 
back into equilibrium or fall into depression. 

The glory of human achievement has arisen from recognizing 
and taking advantage of this inherent law of the All ; and the truly 
scientific healer knows that it is the very foundation of his healing 
art. Consciousness itself, the sublimest transfiguration of the Eternal, 
Divine Energy, is markedly subject to the Alternating Law, and it 
is our imperative duty to drop sterile speculations, and learn its in- 
variable "Mode of Motion." 

At times the "God-Force" of us swells to great intensity, and 
generates brilliant thinking and a sense of wondrous Vital Energy- 
This condition let us call its Positive Pole. 

Then it subsides, or swings back into a condition of quiet seren- 
ity, or state of comparative repose. This is its Negative Pole. Be- 
tween these two points stretch the great meridians of action. 



T H E S E C R E T r O L D . 2 J 

Now the status of Vital Energy depends at all times upon its 
proper exercise. Knowing this invariant law, Professor Winship, at 
first a sickly, puny man, induced in his organism the ability to lift 
twenty-seven hundred pounds. 

The natural demand for corresponding psychic exercise lies at 
the root of every form of prayer, service and religious ritual people 
employ. The higher nature requires development equally with the 
physical. "In due season ye shall reap if ye faint not," says practical 
Paul. What is the meaning of this principle in cultivating Healing 
Might? 

CONDITIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 

We have intimated a method by which one may check the con- 
version of Vital Energy into Thought. When he does this, the Con- 
sciousness remains with a mere Sense of Bein^, only ; a blank, which 
is the so-called Negative Pole of Life. This stoppage of thought is 
like the shutting down of a head-gate in a dam from which its waters 
are escaping. Through such a mental process the \^ital Force is 
made to rise and gather in the organism like waters in a reservoir. 

By some teachers this exercise has been called "Holding One's 
Self in the Absolute." It simply means that they loosen the attention 
from Ideas, or Thought-pictures, and maintain only a Uniform Sense 
of Being. The realization of Power this action awakens has just 
been explained. 

If you have ever seen a placer-miner's "boom" in operation, 
you can form a conception both of this and its succeeding step of 
unfoldment. In a stream whose gravel contains gold, the workman 



22 THE SECRET TOLD. 

builds a dam at some convenient point, in the center of which he 
fixes a gate which can suddenly be thrown open. 

Flowing naturally over gravel and boulders, the stream washes 
them down very slowly. But when all is ready, the Miner shuts his 
gate and lets the reservoir above it fill. This done, he suddenly lifts 
the latches and throws the gate wide open. The gathered waters 
rush out with an energy which is marvelous, cut away banks, carry 
down huge boulders, and move the whole mass of gravel in the dry 
bed below, while the heavier gold sinks to the bedrock, or is carried 
to and settles in the riffles of his flume. With such an appliance one 
man can do in a few hours w^hat it would take a hundred men several 
da^^s to accomplish with their hands. The breaking of the dam above 
Johnstown was followed by just such a gigantic, appalling boom. 

Well, when the student has ''held himself in the Absolute" or 
Negative Pole of being for a time, he gathers by impulse of Will, 
all the Energy thus_ checked and stored, and sweeps to some clear, 
brief thought, and fastens the intensest attention upon it. He thinks 
it w4th every fiber and focuses upon it all the Energy he has been 
gathering. This is the Positive Pole of Being. Between it and the 
Negative, the alternating current of power plays; and by a sincere, 
steady practice of its method, the whole body is thrilled and over- 
flowed with Divine Potency. It will spread a Life-glow from head to 
feet, and cause the organism to react marvelously. 

The following personal experience of the author illustrates the 
practical effect of the ''Alternating Current" upon ailments : 

During the past Spring the epidemic known as "La Grippe" 



THE SECRET TOLD. 23 

was prevalent in town. It remained for two or three months, and 
many suffered while a few died from its effects. 

One raw day I was exposed for some time without sufficient 
clothing, and returned home sneezing, with a headache, a hacking 
cough, eyes watering, and a smart fever. They were the prevalent 
symptoms of ''La Grippe." 

I went into a quiet room, sat in an easy chair, and relaxed my- 
self thoroughly in the manner already explained. Thus having accu- 
mulated Vital Energy, I instantly plunged into intense consciousness, 
and, fixing attention upon the parts affected, sent two or three intense 
thought-waves over them. The burning pain, the headache and 
fever faded out as heat dies from the hand when it is laid against a 
cold window-pane. I arose from the chair without a single trace of 
the disorder which had attacked me. Other troubles, such as neural- 
gia, acidity of the stomach, and rheumatism have been treated in 
similar fashion and with uniform success. 

Moderately Alternated, this practice is the best rest one can 
take ; it begets a healthy habit, and redeems all the powers. Others 
associated with me report the same results ; and numbers treated, 
who have faithfully met the conditions of healing, have been speedily 
and completely cured. Day by day verification of the method is 
sought, and the outcome is excellent. 

But what we need is practice in applying these thoughts. In 
order to place the simple, effective principle in the clearest possible 
light, we give a few lucid exercises by which Healing Power may be 
awakened and directed. They are few, but contain all the essentials 



24 THESECRETTOLD. 

of the secret. Let him who would "know the Truth" and be made 

free by it, take these practices into his daily life. The first four are 

for treating one's own conditions; the last, cover the known ground 

for general healing : 

SEIiFMTJ^HflT^H^T. 

I. — A GENERAL EXERCISE FOR ACQUIRING AND KEEPING SELF-CONTROL. 

{a) Feeling ''nervous," "uneasy" or "depressed;" go where you 
can be in the silence and alone. Sit comfortably ; loll ; and persist- 
ently relax your undue tension. Relapse in a heap, and make the 
muscles soft and flabby. A little effort of will and practice enables 
you to do this very soon. Let your intent be that of volition alone ; 
put into it no motion or contraction of any part ; do it by letting your 
muscular tension go. 

"Let go" is a potent phrase. Drop things that burn you. 

This relaxation is greatl}^ aided by slow breathing. Very delib- 
erately draw in as much air as the lungs will contain, hold it a little 
time, and then expel it in the same slow manner. Do not give 
thought to it, nor set your body in a distinct effort ; but let it be done 
easily, and in a state simulating sleepiness. 

Practice this exercise five or ten minutes at a sitting. 

{d) Try the foregoing exercise for some days without attempt- 
ing to "hold a thought," but sway easily away from thinking. After 
you have made it familiar, then do as follows : 

Keeping the relaxed condition, inspire very slowly, and think 
deep inwardly the word ''peace.'' As you expel the depleted air and 
the body slowly settles down, change the word to ''rest,'' or reduce 



T H E S E C R E T T O L D . 25 

the mind to a blank. Do not merely repeat these words, but think 
the meaning of them, and yield yourself to their vibrations', they are 
the very harmonics of health. 

The result of these two simple exercises on nervous unrest and 
depressed spirits is marvelous. Practice them patiently until they 
beget in you a tendency to perfect serenity. It is much better thus 
to ''take time by the forelock," and right any incipient form of disease 
than to let it develop into something serious. 

II. — TO AROUSE AND INTENSIFY HEALING POWER. 

You have doubtless heard much about ''denying" sickness, and 
as the opposite of this, affirming that a patient "is perfectly sound 
and well." Such ways of speaking about a case of sickness have cre- 
ated much objection and ridicule. To many who do not see the 
point involved in them they sound like insanity. What do they 
signify? 

Well, Reader, they are mere mechanics, employed to divorce 
thought and attention from untoward conditions, and to generate or 
arouse the desirable vibration of Being. That is all. The}' are sug- 
gestive formulas by which thought and consciousness are wrenched 
from contemplation of abnormal conditions, and exalted above the 
sense of pain. They are not "lies" from the ideal side of the ques- 
tion, and it is here that they are employed. Among those who have 
constantly tried them, there is not the least doubt of their efficienc\-. 
I have often quickl}^ banished acute pain by vehement denials and 
volitional forbidding of it. But the magic is not in the mere words ; 
it lies in what the words arouse, namely, a more vigorous X'ital Wa\o. 



26 T H E S E C R E T T O L D . 

and an Exaltation which alters the very condition out of which 
pain arises. 

All formulas are such mechanics for inducing the action of this 
dormant Vitality which naturally rights bodily ailments. -I have seen 
persons who were at death's door, persist in these vehement means, 
and fight with sublime courage a battle which was pronounced by 
doctors and skeptics as insane and criminal ; and they won! 

All honor to such heroes! By the law of ''the survival of the 
fittest" they ought to live, and do. The w^ondrous power of Will, that 
highest evolution of the ''God-of-us," here asserts itself. Nothing is 
ever gained by ''slumping" down, and throwing up the hands. 

This is the Central Idea in all healing practice ; look well to it. 
That which seems simple may prove profound. 

THE NEGATIVE POLE. 

Seek silence ; if possible, absolute stillness. Here sit in such a 
manner as to feel no strain or uneasiness to divert the attention. 
With eyes closed, breathe deeply and quietly, and learii to cease think- 
zng. It will perhaps be the hardest task you have ; but if you 
patiently persist in it you will conquer. 

Unless you have experimented in this line you little realize 
what a maelstrom the brain is. A tempest of ideation rages in it. 
Nothing seems under control. Will, purpose and desire are whirled 
out of the way, and the sw^arming mental-forms and fancies over-ride 
and fly away with all effort to govern them. Before the Conscious 
Center is an ever-revolving kaleidoscope ; and, studying your think- 



THE SEC RET TOLD. 27 

ing organs intently, you become aware of a ceaseless seething, and 
with the inner vision perceive the movements of a perpetual efferves- 
cence inside the skull. At times it will appear like a falling dust 
storm ; again it will sway side-wise as if moved by a breeze ; but it 
never seems to end. Trying to locate the precise knowing-center, 
you will find it in the region of the eyes. Here consciousness seems 
focalized, and striving to know it, it seems to converge smaller and 
smaller. 

This perpetual ''illusion" in the brain must be quelled. 

In trying to cease thinking, do not undertake too much at once. 
The Brooklyn Bridge began with a first hammer-stroke. 

Breathe deeply and slowly, at the same time dropping all men- 
tal pictures. Turn the inner eye away from seeing ; avoid it. Simply 
maintain the Sense of Being, that Feeling which is its Base. 

[N. B. — This first exercise should be practiced from three to 
five seconds at a time; and should be increased very slowly. Haste 
will defeat you. Keep behind, and hold of your powers, j 

Do not imagine the mental-blank here induced is to render you 
"passive." Far from it. Do not be ''controlled." The "Sense of 
Being" is the remainder after checking thought; and thus relieved 
of its transformations, it will intensify wondrously. Keep Conscious- 
ness of "I Am" vivid ; but as you inhale, try to draw it from the 
frontal region and center it in other parts of the brain. 

As you gain self-control, learn to sink Conscious Attention any- 
where within yourself. Do not be in the least discouraged by failures. 
"You must tread* the path." 



28 THE SECRET TOLD. 

THE POSITIVE POLE. 

Having by sufficient practice reached the power to suspend 
thought while retaining vivid consciousness for ten or twenty seconds, 
then bring into play the next factor of the process. 

Suddenly gather all your Energy, and with every fiber of Being 
plunge into a clear, brief thought, and absorb your total Force in its 
meaning. Here are a few excellent formulas: 

I Am Life ! 

I Am Health ! 

I Am Love ! 

Use any one of these which pleases you. But remember, it is 
not a repetition of the mere words required, but thinking them with 
the utmost vigor, so that they rouse you as much as you were relaxed. 
Repeat the thought taken several times, occupying as many seconds 
as you remained conscious without thinking. 

Lastly, after the most patient, intent practice of the two exer- 
cises separately, alternate them. First the Simple Consciousness ; 
then the Polar Thought. 

Back and forth, back and forth, increasing the time a few sec- 
onds at each sitting. 

If you have never tried this process, you will find it a Divine 

Revelation of the very mechanics of "God," the All, in begetting 

health and power. 

SPECIflli THEflT^H^T. 

By this is meant the directing of healing energy to any particu- 
lar organ or part. 



T H E S E C R E T T O L D . 29 

To treat a specific trouble, sit in the silence, exercise yourself 
as indicated in alternating Conscious Blank with Polar Thought, and 
in the latter, fix the thought and will upon the organ or parts 
affected.* Let every vibration and impulse decree the condition 
desired, and be bent upon its accomplishment. 

"Expectant Attention," which is only a modern name for 
"Faith," has already made the understanding of this treatment easy. 
The very polarity of bodily cells can be altered and intensified b}- 
such dynamic energy. Illustrations are common in the deaths and 
recoveries which result from fright, shocks, good new^s, or something 
which changes the entire current of thinking.f 

As polar opposites, Body and Mind are mutually reactive. It 
is almost a common-place principle ; upon it, form a clear mental- 
image or picture of the part treated as it would be in a healthy state, 
and learn to identify the part you would restore with the pattern. 

If this step seems dubious or "smacks of quackery," read Dr. 
Fredrik Bjornstrom's ''History a7id Present Developuient of Hypno- 
tism',' especially that portion which relates to "Suggestion in Curing 
Disease." 

Read also the very clear report of "The London Society for 



*NoTE. — In treating yourself "bold the thought" or decree while breathing in. 
Reverse the process when treating others. There is line opportunity for varied experiment 
here. Find for yourself the special exercise most effective in your case. 

I In this polar fluctuation of Vital Energy lies the explanation of the "idiopathic," 
"germ" and "contagious" characters of diseases and liability to them. Many persons with- 
stand all such influences, while others succumb even to the feak of infection. The bodily 
condition can be so maintained as to give neither soil nor polar attraction to "germs" and 
"bacilli." Infection simply argues a decline of Vital Energy ; an opening of the bodily tissue 
as soil for "germs" which in normal, bodily states tind neither conditions nor possibility of 
life and ravage. 



30 THESECRETTOLD. 

Psychical Research," 1883, and note whether or not the Mind is able 
to localize definitely its energies and thought-effects. 

In Dr. Bjornstrom's Work, instances are recorded where, at a 
distance of several miles, patients were reached and assisted by the 
Psychic Force of The All, directed by the operator. The proof this 
presents is that of One Mind, and the direct, mutual influence one 
Conscious Center has on another.* 

The influence of one's Conscious Center on his own body is 
universally conceded ; the healing of one by another through psychic 
force is much disputed. But the evidence of its actual operation is 
daily being accumulated. In Dr. Bjornstrom's Work as just referred 
to, the fact seems established with scientific rigor. 

The only premise upon which this psychic healing is conceiva- 
ble is that of the Unity and Identity of Life, Mind or Being. Each 
Conscious, Dynamic Center is based in, and operates through, the 
entire mental substance. 

In treating others, the Psychic Healer, possessing naturally, or 
having by the methods outlined aroused his healing powers, directs 
it to the patient b}^ one of the three following processes, or b}^ combi- 
nations of any or all of them : 

I. — Formulas and decrees, spoken directly to the patient. 

"''■ "Hypnotism — Its History and Development," by Fredrik Bjornstrom, M. D., Head 
Physician of the Stockholm Hospital, Professor of Psychiatry and J ate Royal Swedish Medi- 
cal Councilor ; authorized translation from the second Swedish edition by Baron Nils Posse, 
M. G., director of the Boston School of Gymnastics (double number). New York: Humboldt 
Publishing Company, 28 Layfayette Place. 



THE SECRET TOLD. 3I 

2.- — ''Laying on of hands," with volitional decrees. 

3. — Silent thought and decree, exercised while absent from the 
patient, but at the same time holding him in mind and directing to 
him the Will as a telepathic power. 

Remember always, however, that none of these methods mean 
anything, save as it implies the Original Vital Potency as a founda- 
tion and healing Energy. This is the Ultimate Force, aroused and 
communicated in every instance — The One Divine Dynamic of all 
Being. 

The possibility of a transference and induction of this Force 
has been believed in through all man's history. In a cure reported 
of Jesus it is said that "he felt virtue had gone out of him." See 
Mark 5:30. It is the subtlest Energy we know anything about, and 
that it should be thus inductive all the analogous teachings of electrics 
and magnetics assure us. But the final guarantee of any method is 
the demonstrable success attending its employment. In Psychic 
Healing the operator must become a dynamo of power and thus be 
able to make his energy felt by the patient. 

In the present development of the subject, the author frankly 
admits his preference for the present form of treatment, both by 
instruction, and the method commended by Jesus, "Laying on of 
Hands." 

To treat a patient, first key your own Consciousness to the 
concert-pitch of power as already indicated ; then with or without 
personal contact with him, identify yourself with him. fix thought and 
will upon his difficulty, and decree, or project b}- the ancient "I will. 



32 THE SECRET TOLD. 

be thou whole," the Energy of healing life through him. Let pur- 
pose and effort be convergent and direct. 

By this process I have seen a case of Asthma of many years' 
standing cured completely (not merely "relieved") in less than live 
minutes without any personal contact of healer and patient. The 
same operator cured two cases of scarlet fever in a few minutes, and, 
when the patient comes in rational faith, does not fail.* 

THE patient's PART. 

The contents of this paragraph are profoundly significant. As 
a general rule, the hearty co-operation of the patient is a vital factor 
in the healing problem. Note how this is illustrated in healing 
reported to have been done by Christ. In the majority of cases 
spontaneous "faith," or that begotten by the clear "science" of this 
Divine Power, is an indispensable condition on the part of patients. 
Easily to be affected by healing virtue, one must throw himself full- 
length into the current of power. Who does not do this will defeat 
any effort. By surly obstinancy of temperament and skeptical refusal 
to fulfill conditions and strive to respond, the subject can render futile 
all attempts to reach his case. 

For this reason, as a general rule I treat no one who does not 
come and earnestly ask for help ; and when I find the applicant hang- 
ing back and showing stupid indifference to his part, after he has had 
the conditions fully laid down, I cease to interfere with his personal 
preferences. The healer should recognize the personal right of a 



*For particulars of these instances you are referred to Hon, Joseph Wolff, of 
Boulder, Colorado. 



'I^ H E SECRET 1^ O L D . 33 

patient to be sick if he prefers it, and exhibits no determination to 
throw it off when instructed as to what he should do. We have no 
right to ''take the chalk out of another's hand" and work his problem 
if he has not appealed for help or given up his sullen indifference to 
the demonstrably right method. 

Those who respect Jesus' example cannot imagine him to have 
over-ridden the prejudice and self-sufficiency of anyone arbitrarily. 

]V[flGfiHTISJV[ fl|SlD HVP^^OTISIVI. 

Among some there is a foolish word-war over these topics. 
They who have got rid of one "devil" create another just as unwar- 
ranted out of these two exhibitions of Force. It is pitiable nonsense. 
There is but One Mind. Guage all thought by this verifiable postu- 
late and fear nothing. 

A few repudiate and denounce these forms of applied energy ; 
yet not one of them knows a whit more about the real nature of that 
which he discusses than about any other "Mode of Motion." Hypno- 
tism is properly called "The Force of Suggestion." What are books, 
sermons, songs or instructions of any kind but suggestive factors? 
We should put away childish fears. They are enfeebling and a rem- 
nant of our long-instilled superstitions. 

All Power is Divine ; is an inherency of the One and Only 
Mind, "beside which there is none else." Anything which heals is 
divinely legitimate. Let us cast away silliness and nonsense. 

"The kingdom of God is within you." "It is 'God' that worketh 
in you." "Perfect Love casteth out all fear." 



34 THESECRETTOLD. 

Reader, ''know thy divine self;" ''Quit you like a man; be 
strong!" That which moves in thee is the majesty of All Being. 

"the all, in which we live, and upon which the body depends." 

Herbert Spencer defines the phenomenon of Life as ''The con- 
tinual adjustment of internal relations to external relations." We 
accept this definition, but add its converse as equally true — the adjust- 
ment of external to internal relations. And we insist upon the inva- 
riant significance of both propositions. 

In our present state of evolution we have "Ideals of Power" 
that bewilder and unbalance many. "Heaven is not reached by a 
single bound." There may come a time when unfolded Man can 
exhibit independence of his natural conditions (such as pure air, light, 
food and drink) ; but until he is so developed, his sanity and bodily 
health must be conserved by recognizing "the law of him." 

Religious Science advocates no insane balderdash. It says that 
hygiene, proper food and cleanliness are natural and divine condi- 
tions of health and righteousness. Even the theological "God," with 
all his claimed perfections, is pictured as subject to the conditions of 
his existence. "He cannot lie;" "cannot look upon sin;" "cannot be 
unjust," etc. Yet there have been some non-discriminating teachers 
who tacitly repudiate all "material conditions," as if by that name 
they had explained and done away with them. 

To dyspeptic patients I have heard them sa}' "eat anything;" 
yet they regarded opium, whisky, meat and a few other "trifles" as 



'I' H E S E C R E T T OLD. 35 

forbidden. Who does not discern the force of natural relations, and 
see that the glory of sanity springs from taking righteous advantage 
of them, Is blind and cannot see afar off. On the hand, the finger Is 
a useful member, but thrust Into the eye It Is out of place. "Let all 
things be done decently and in order!' 

THE GENERAL LIFE. 

He who would unfold his highest faculties must ever bear In 
Mind that "righteousness" alone can exalt him. Purity, serenity and 
"Love which seeketh not Its own, Is not provoked, taketh no account 
of evil," are the prime factors of the DIvinest Evolution. Train your 
Being In these things. Don't Indulge In sarcasm, bitterness, impa- 
tience, pettiness and anger toward any person. It unsettles the founda- 
tions of thought, and weakens the vibration of healing powers. Be 
kind, cheerful, loving and just. Try always to see the "good" or 
"better part," and in association with others, never forget the path of 
your own evolution. Under their stresses, temperaments and trials, 
men follow the line of the least resistance as a general rule. Study 
life from this higher point-of-view. 

Give "righteousness" the benefit of every doubt ; by doing so 
you are always on the safe side. When you hesitate long about an 
action, you are undermining yourself, and tottering about in such a 
manner as to weaken the will and moral sense. Be strong. A firm 
Mind and a sound Body are the dynamic centers of " 'God's' 
Kingdom." 

Above all things, cultivate Love. From crystal to Human 
Being it is the Divine Motive Force of Life. Live It ; breathe it ; 



36 THESECRETTOLD. 

think it, and seek to give it place in every action. Draw from Nature, 
from the skies, the earth and men what you give — Love and Power. 
Perpetually recognize your Unit}^ and Identity with ''God," The All. 
This ''Father" (Feeder) is your Eternal Supply — the rest of you. 



flpTHl^ THOUGHT. 

Our study draws to a close. We have by no means tried to 
exhaust this topic, but have concentrated its vital truths into what 
has been written. 

It has been our aim to eliminate the mist and superstition 
which serve only to dissipate Power. Many have healed without 
knowing the sequence of their energy. Art always precedes Science ; 
for Science is but a formulation and explanation of the rules of art, 
that it may thereby be conserved and become easy as possible. 

That speculative "Idealism" which shuts its eyes to the Divine 
Verities of Objective Existence is a one-winged-bird. Be not con- 
fused by oracle or wordy claims. "Fruit," not witless "faith," is the 
test of power. Because they hope for "gift" and foreign supply, many 
forget the sublime words of Christ to those who were looking 
expectantly to "some other" source than "The All." "The Kingdom 
of God is within you." 

"In due season ye shall reap if ye faint not." Give your sin- 
cerest attention to the Divine Mechanics of Being, and ever remem- 
ber that "Now is the day of salvation." "Work out your own deliver- 
ance ; for it is God that worketh in you." 



THE SECRET TOLD. ^il 

JlEAlilfiG ^OTES. 

''Gather up the fragments * * * that nothing may be lost." 

Thought, Intuition and Verification ; you must combine these. 

Remember that ''Faith is the evidence of things not seen." 

"Let patience have her perfect work." 

"God" is Love. Then Love steadily and manifest the "God" 
of you. 

How shall we deal with broken limbs and dangerous wounds? 

If unable to manage them yourself, employ a skillful surgeon ; 
and when he has used his art, treat as already indicated. 

Would you pay any attention to "diet ?" 

Always. The student is supposed to have "common sense," 
and to have evolved beyond the swinish stage. 

Shall we ever employ a "doctor ?" 

"Where the treasure is, there will the heart be, also." Do as 
your highest faith demands ; yet if you would cultivate your own 
pivine Power, bring it out and rely upon it. It is not necessary to 
fear any devil, much less make one of an honest ph3^sician. 

Shall we ever use "medicine ?" 

In the sense of general drugs, no ; better not. Food is a form 
of medicine used in the disease called hunger. Do you eat and 
drink? Why? 

If "medicine" is ever used, what is the special signiticance of 
the Psychic Method of Healing ? 

The natural, "short-cut." Greater convenience. "The more 
excellent way." Evolution of speedier, safer Power. 



^S THESECRETTOLD. 

Shall we call "matter," ''evil" and ''disease" lies ? 

First, justl}' define them — if yoit can. A lapse into nonsense 
will thereby be avoided. One condition is just as real as another. 
They are all matters of interpretation ; and we may fail at first to 
interpret things correctly, as constant revisions show. Understand 
what "polarity" means ; it is necessary and universal. Whatever is, 
is. Anything which exists is not a lie. 

What are "mortal mind," and ''mortal thought ?" 

There are no such things. There is one deathless Mind, and 
its vibrations, arising in Conscious Centers, are shaped into Ideas, 
which, properly related, make thought. 

Shall we use "hypnotism ?" 

As "suggestion" of Truth, yes; as "black-magic," no. Remem- 
ber that what you do reacts upon yourself as well as the patient. 
"All things are lawful, but all are not expedient." 

Why do some heal from the first, and others reach it slowly ? 

Why did Mozart and Blind Tom perform marvelously upon 
the pianoforte from the first? (Read I Corinthians 15.) 

Shall we "recognize failures ?" 

You can't help yourself. They speak for themselves. 

If we ever fail, what shall we do ? 

Above all things be honest. Admit that you did not get your prob- 
lem ; then "forgetting the things that are behind, press forward," etc. 

Shall we use "formulas" in trying to heal ? 

Use any means that will awaken power ; but always remember 
that they are mechanics only. 



T H E S E C R E T 'I' O L D . 39 

If unable to treat myself what shall I do ? 

Call someone in whom you have confidence and put yourself 
unreservedly in his hands, following his directions. 

Shall we treat everybody? 

No ! As a general rule treat only those who ask for your help. 
Interference will make some people tell you to mind your own busi- 
ness. (See Matthew 7:6.) ''The servant is not above his Master." 

How shall I regard the Bible in this study? 

Precisely as you do any other book. That in it which tallies 
with fact, accept ; that which does not, reject. Make a fetich of 
nothing. 

What is Intuition ? 

Quick reasoning. Rapid seeing with the mind's eye. It is 
worthless unless directly or inductively verified. 

What is Mentality? 

One's Conscious Center. His peculiarity of Mind and thought. 

What are the prime requisites for an earnest healer ? 

{a) Common sense, [b) Freedom from cant and superstition. 
[c) Practice in the silence, \d^^ Love that ''never faileth." \^c\ Spir- 
ituality and a righteous life. 

"If these things be in you and abound, they make you that ye 
shall neither be barren nor unfruitful." 



40 THESECRET'l^OLD. 

The following words are defined as used in the lesson : 

ABSTRACT — Drawn from objects ; thought of as mental pictures. 

AB-SOLUTE — Loosened from ; free from perceived conditions. 

AUTO-MATICALLY— Self-acting in manner; self -directing. 

CANON — A law, rule or principle of order. 

CON-CRETE — Test of thought by referring it to the object or objects thought about. 

CONSCIOUS — Self-knowing ; aware of self's Existence. 

DYNAMIC — Active ; showing power in doing something, 

DIFFERENTIATED— Varied in form, degree, function or appearance. 

ENERGY — Dormant power ; latent capability m the Organism. 

EVOEUTION — A change from "all-alikeness" into higher, more useful condition and 
form, by the latent forces of the thing differed, acting with its conditions and extensions. 

FORCE — The capability of The All of producing motion or "strain." 

FUNCTION — The natural activity of anything, especially of any bodily organ ; as 
the liver or glands. 

FACULTY — A function, trained in special forms and directions. 

HYPNOTISM — The power vv^hich suggestion has of moving the Mind or its Con- 
scious Centers to any thought or action. 

HEREDITY — Traits, or tendencies, impressed upon personality by experience ; 
especially that of one's ancestry. 

IN-HERENT— Being naturally in a thing ; belonging to it. 

IN-DIVIDUAL— Not dividable ; Unit-like ; being a Whole. 

IN-DIVIDUAL-ITY— One's non-dividable existence. His Totality; or all that 
really makes being, considered as a Whole. (It is often used to indicate one's peculiar nature 
as distinguished from that of "other persons.") Mind is One ; Individuality is the fact of 
each man's Identity w^ith the One Mind. 

LAW — The process, or order of process, in the All ; the invariant method of events. 
(Do not confuse it with a "statute."} 

MATTER — The visible or invisible condition of The All which in general becomes 
evident through action or the senses; the "Negative," or usually inactive form of Universal 
Reality ; the crystalized, or generally visible, form of Force ; substance of any kind, crude, 
refined or etherial. 

MIND — That form of Substance w^hose vibrations are called thought. The subtler, 
highest, "positive" pole of the All. 

NOUMENON — The Essential substratum or Reality out of w^hich all activities 
spring, and by the inherent qualities of which they arise. It includes all possible entity. 

ORGANISM — A mutually dependent group of living parts which together make a 
distinct existence. 

POLE — A focus, or Center of Power or capability — as the end of a magnet. 

POLAR — Having poles, or Centers, of activity. 

POLx\RITY — The power of acting in opposite manners, as the ends of a magnet 
which attract and repel. 

PHYSICAL — That which is sensible or discernible as material. 

PSYCHIC— Belonging to the Mind or Dynamic Pole of Being. 

PRIM-ORDIAL — First in order of growth or existence. 

PHENOMENON — An appearance ; something evident to sense ; that which takes 
visible, audible or tangible form. 

SOUL — Supposed to be the spiritual-organism (vague). 

SPIRIT — The etherial, subtlest, dynamic condition of the All ; the Automatic pole 
of substance, or positive element. 

STATIC — Not discernably active ; inert ; quiescent ; fixed ; not perceptibly or rap- 
idly changing. 

TELEPATHY — Communication of feeling or thought at a distance, by the Vibra- 
tions awakened in Conscious Centers affecting others. The medium of vibration is the ethe- 
rial form of the All. 

VITALITY — Life movement in the Ail; it may be active or latent; it becomes 
1^1^ active and self-knowing in organism. 



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